Derogatory remarks on Bihar: probationary KV teacher gets suspended
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Patna: Kendriya Vidyalaya suspended a probationary teacher after she aired videos in which she made derogatory remarks about Bihar and its people. The teacher, who was appointed in Bihar’s Jehanabad, was expressing her frustration about her first appointment in Bihar, The Indian Express (TIE) reported.
In the videos that quickly went viral on social media, the 24-year-old said that her posting in Bihar was unacceptable.
In one of the videos, she says she hails from Delhi and that she will always remember her first posting.
“Kendriya Vidyalaya has many regions. People don’t like the Kolkata region, but I was ready for even that. I am ready to go to places like Kolkata, Odisha, Himachal Pradesh, or even Ladakh, where no one wants to go, but not Bihar,” she was heard saying.
She says, “The ground reality is that people of Bihar have zero civic sense… India is a developing country because of Bihar. The day we remove Bihar, India will be a developed country,” she is purportedly heard saying. The video sparked strong reactions, with many calling her words inappropriate, especially for an educator.
The video was reportedly deleted after it went viral, but the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) MP from Samastipur, Shambhavi Choudhary, wrote to the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) Commissioner on February 26, demanding action against the teacher, TIE reported.
“Such statements are highly inappropriate, unacceptable, and unbecoming of an educator, who is responsible for imparting knowledge and values to students,” Choudhary said in her letter. “This incident has deeply hurt the sentiments of the people of Bihar, and immediate action is necessary to maintain the trust and integrity of the institution.”
The KVS had already issued an order dated February 25, suspending the teacher with immediate effect “under Rule 10 (1)(a) of the Central Civil Services (Classification, Control, and Appeal) Rules, 1965”, TIE reported.
The order stated that the probationary teacher had been transferred to Kendriya Vidyalaya in Mashrak, Chhapra, during the suspension period and specified that “she must not leave the Mashrak school without prior permission from the principal”.